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    “It just feels like such a nothing story," Shane says. "But my mom’s so fucking... worked up about it.” 

    Ilya watches him. “I think,” he says carefully, “that your mom is also the parent of a teenage boy who played on that hockey team. And not just the manager of a person who is being asked for comment on a bad story. Yes?”  

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    (Shane was fifteen years old when he moved to Sarnia.)

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    15 Jun 2026

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    Ilya is six the first time it happens. He's in the garden, and then he sees himself, just a little older, and that older Ilya waves and comes running over to play. Later he will be so grateful Mama is the only one who sees. She tells him it must be their secret, just the two of them, always, and gives him ground rules, to keep him safe: when you visit, don't talk to strangers, don't go in public, don't ask questions of your older self, don't tell your younger self anything. You don't know what knowing the future might change. Don't ever tell anyone about it.

    When Ilya says he's going to score fifty goals his rookie season, he's not boasting, he's reporting a fact.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    It doesn’t matter, really, what Rozanov does before they see each other. Shane will give him whatever he asks for anyway.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    “Worth the wait?” Ilya asks, head pillowed on Hollander’s shoulder: a soft place to land, he thinks, delirious.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    Except, they probably fucking do have the same cold, because, why wouldn’t they? Every other aspect of Shane’s career, his life, is tied up with Ilya Rozanov’s. The interview today is just more proof that they’ve always come as a pair, and that they always will. First and second; second and first. Rozanov and Hollander; Hollander and Rozanov. They’ll be mentioned in the same breath for the rest of their careers, then they’ll be dumb stories about which of them will retire first, and then they’ll be written about together in the hockey histories that Shane reads. They’re fucking inseparable.

    Only, not like that. Not… coupled. No, it’s Hollander versus Rozanov, now and forever.

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    Montreal Metros (home) vs. Boston Raiders (visitors). Five years since rookie season. One interview. One hockey game. Two sick captains.

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    11 Jun 2026